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struggle with illness and then death at the age of nearly 54
years old, and he was buried without any funeral
ceremonies that prevailed at that time, and his house in

Valladolid, where he died, was converted into a museum.

The traveler Columbus set out on his expedition and
reached the Caribbean islands on October 21, 1492 AD,
and this was the first voyage, while on his second voyage
it was six years after the first voyage, and it was in the year
1498 AD, and in that year the discovery of the new world

was the American continent. Some indications are that
there is a connection and communication between the
European and American continents long before Columbus
was able to discover them.

The idea of the expedition came to the mind of the traveler
Columbus for several reasons, the most important of

which are: achieving fame, and then getting rich as a
result, and his intolerance to Catholicism had a motive for
continuing to move forward to find a path other than the
one that crosses Muslim countries, or the country of (the
Mohammedans) as he said And as his adventurous spirit

drove him to delve into the theory of scholars of his time.

They emphasized that by virtue of the spherical shape of
the Earth, access to the continent of Asia and the Indian
subcontinent is not limited to flights to the eastern side,
but it is also possible to head west and reach these
continents, and he relied on this trip on the most recent

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